New York Times Appoints Editor of CJR as Public Editor

New York Times: Elizabeth Spayd, the editor in chief and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review and a longtime editor at the Washington Post, will become the next public editor at the New York Times, the company announced. She succeeds Margaret Sullivan, who held the post from 2012 until her departure last month. Spayd, 57, joined the Post in 1988 and spent 25 years at the paper, holding a variety of reporting and editing positions.